Iraqi President Saddam Hussein compared with Sri Lankan President Rajapakse
By M.R.Wilson
Just like the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who was hanged for the killings perpetrated by his reckless orders empowered by the flawed and defective Iraqi Constitution, President Mahinda Rajapakse also should be tried for his ordering recklessly the indiscriminate killings of the Tamils, young and old in Sri Lanka empowered by the defective and flawed Sri Lankan Constitution.
Superpowers and their hypocrisy
The credibility of the superpowers that all vied for the death of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and backed the execution of death sentence on him for crimes against humanity is open to question because they are all leading proponents of the undemocratic ethnocracy prevalent in Sri Lanka which has unleashed state sponsored killings indiscriminately among Tamils.
Under the patronage of super powers by being a pet in their hands already well equipped, Sri Lankan government roams around freely, and commits acts of worse terrorism in Tamil homeland without being checked, until the Tamil community is exterminated gradually but steadily.
Regional and Super powers both overtly and covertly help the hawkish chauvinist Sinhala government from time to time militarily, and provide military training to the Sri Lankan top army brasses and share military and naval intelligence with the Sri Lankan armed forces.
Sri Lankan Constitution is flawed and defective
It looks very unfortunate, unreasonable and unethical, when Sri Lanka , a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country with a diverse and rich culture, has a constitution to impose the will of the majoritarian Buddhist Sinhalese on the Tamil minority.
Sri Lankan Constitution had been enacted purely by the quantitative strength of the majoritarian Singhalese population which arrogates all the powers to the Buddhist Singhalese population strangulating the basic and fundamental rights of the Tamils.
The Constitution under reference emphasizes that, only a Buddhist Sinhalese could be the Head of government and state, Buddhism could be the State religion, Singhalese could be the official language, colonization of Tamil areas by Singhalese could be done at State expense, and a contrived standardization procedure to enter higher education could be enforced to benefit the Sinhalese with the suppression of Tamil children who thrive on education, while on the sly the past historical records or the archaeological evidences of the country could be tampered with surreptitious interpolations to be advantageous to the Sinhalese community.
Sri Lanka is not a Democratic Country and the Constitution should be regularized with necessary amendments
Democracy does not prevail in Sri Lanka under the prevalent racial dominance of Sinhalese race, linguistic dominance of Singhalese language, and religious dominance of the Buddhist religion. Even after a lapse of 59 years since independence, the Chauvinistic Sinhalese rulers still do not have the will and desire to quench the aspirations of the Tamils.
Tamils have very legitimate aspirations
Tamils have a very legitimate desire, as anybody else would, to control their own lives, to rule their own destinies, and to govern themselves in their homeland, in the areas they have traditionally inhabited and to be independent as they were before the advent of Colonial rulers in the year 1505.
The vicious term, terrorism, has become a propaganda weapon to demonize the LTTE which is not at all an international terrorist organization, but only an organization within the Tamil territory struggling for the basic and fundamental rights of the Tamils.
It would be comprehensible even to any person that sustainable peace could be achieved in Sri Lanka only on redressing of political grievances of the Tamils living therein. It is of utmost stupidity to attempt to cure the symptom instead of the root cause of the disease through anti-terrorism laws.
Any freedom struggle referred to as terrorism is a symptom of an underlying cause of an unjust system, aggression or denial of rights, and they would vanish once the root causes for the conflict are eliminated.
Only iniquitous ethnocracy prevails in Sri Lanka
Iniquitous ethnocracy of the Buddhist Singhalese prevails in Sri Lanka and their constitution cannot have any binding on the Tamils or exercise any jurisdiction over their aspirations as they are not a party to its formulation.
Sri Lankan regime coerces the Tamils into submission
Brazenly with impunity, the hawkish chauvinist regime tries all its best resorting to all tactics possible to bully the Tamil community into submission by threatening them with aerial bombardment, closures of highways and starvation besides denial of other basic facilities expedient and necessary.
State armed forces
In addition to their numerical strength, the Sri Lankan armed forces brazenly with impunity amass sophisticated weaponry and armaments, together with multi-barrel guns, naval ships and war planes reserving funds enormously in the budget for war, in addition to other foreign aids from parties with vested interest, to crush only the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Kfir (bomber plane) is one among the arsenal used by the Sri Lankan government to bomb Tamil villages. It has been used by Sri Lankan government since 1998, and it caused several Tamils to lose their lives. Kfir (bomber plane) is used by nations such as Israel, US, Ecuador, Colombia, and Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan government is well known for its human right violations, but still US approved Israel to sell this disastrous weapon to Sri Lanka, only to annihilate the Sri Lankan Tamil community.
Hawkishness of the chauvinistic Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse
Hawkishness of the chauvinistic Singhalese incumbent Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse tyrannizes the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. How dare he could claim to be a sensible, fit and proper person to be by his name and status? Why all the strings of atrocities are committed on the unarmed Tamils by way of three-pronged attacks of the Singhalese army, Navy and the Air force ? Could he ever be able to account for his disgraceful conduct of promoting Sinhalese army occupation by displacing Tamils in tens of thousands relieving them of their belongings and properties from their legally owned territories where they lived in peace and harmony?
He is devoid of any achievement to boast about when the land is being blood soaked with uncertainty by his gory rule on the Tamils. Rulers like him should imagine the earth without human beings, animals, birds, trees, plants and all other living creatures because of such destructive rules.
International Humanitarian law has been defiantly flouted in Sri Lanka
International Humanitarian law has been defiantly flouted, and all sense of proportionality regarding use of force has been disregarded. Since 1983, over the last 23 years to date, in the war that ensued between the armed forces and the Tamil militants within the Tamil territories, churches, temples, schools, refugee camps, houses and business establishments were bombed and destroyed killing, wounding, maiming or mangling in hundreds including children while leaving behind children orphaned and men and women widowed.
Ceasefire agreement of 22/02/2002
It has to be borne in mind that after the Independence in 1948, former Prime Minister S.W.R.D.Bandaranayake from SLFP prioritized Singhalese only policy of 1956 and captured power defeating the U.N.P. Bandaranayake- S.J.V.Chelvanayagam Pact of 1957 was abrogated because of the UNP protests. Dudley Senanayake – S.J.V.Chelvanayagam Pact of 1965 was abrogated because of the SLFP protest. The Republican Constitution of 1972, robbed the minorities of even the scanty safeguards against discrimination provided under Section 29 of the Soulbury Constitution, introduced at independence in 1948. Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 was abrogated by the National Singhalese protests.
Now, the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse from the SLFP has successfully manoeuvred to topple the Ceasefire agreement of 22/02/2002 enacted by the Tamil militants and the UNP, even though the people heaved a sigh of relief on the enactment of it.
President Mahinda Rajapakse has jettisoned all the aspirations of the Tamils for peace by prioritizing war, with his own ideology called Mahinda Chinthanaya, which emphasizes, no Norway, no federal constitution, no right to Homeland, no self-determination, no nation-hood for Tamils, no PTOMS, no recognition of anyone as sole partner in negotiation and no Oslo as venue for talks and bagged the coveted post with a combination of circumstances, his hawkish stance against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and solid backing from Jathika Hela Urumaya the party of the Buddhist monks and the fascist-nationalist party Janatha Vimukti Peramuna.
Defection of Karuna from the LTTE has become a trump card to forge ahead the Mahinda Chinthanaya
Karuna, one of the most trusted erstwhile confidants of LTTE militants, slipped into the hands of the Singhalese armed forces with a pledge to damage the reputation of the LTTE by pursuing his vendetta against it until it is crushed, to escape justice from the movement because of his embezzlement of tens of millions of movement funds, murdering fellow cadres, sexual escapades and abuse of female cadres.
He was spared on his pledge and his surrender impelled the armed forces to sideline the peace process, break the truce that prevailed by virtue of the CFA and embark afresh on violent activities shattering the peaceful atmosphere that existed in the country.
Karuna was admitted into the government sponsored paramilitary groups, the growth of which is being fostered with ulterior motive at state expense with corpulent remunerations and perquisites.
Tamil community in Sri Lanka is obsessed nowadays with a fear psychosis
Tamil community in Sri Lanka is obsessed nowadays with a fear psychosis, due to the dreadful terror that prevails among them by the existences of the SL Government sponsored Paramilitary groups comprising Tamil renegades.
The para-military groups in collusion with the Singhalese armed forces go on a killing spree when they come across any Tamil who exhibits his/or her aspirations for equal rights or do not submit to their extortions of money. Further, they do not even hesitate to stray into the Tamil territories yearning for sexual relations under coercion or to cast lewd remarks under the guise of searching for hidden bombs.
Furthermore, they indulge in abduction or killing of prominent, erudite and intellectual personnel among Tamils to subdue them and suppress their aspirations. Moreover, they have not released yet the humanitarian aid personnel of TRO whom they had abducted nearly thirteen months ago and their fate is not known still.
Double standards and hypocrisy of the world nations
It smacks of double standards and hypocrisy, when the Co-Chairs (of the Tokyo Donor Conference for Sri Lanka Peace Process comprising the United States, the European Union, Japan, and Norway), stipulate in common that, both parties should cease hostilities immediately, and return to the negotiation table knowing very well that, the LTTE is always ready, but the Government is not ready with its hawkish policies.
One day, the US and other powerful countries would openly reiterate that they support the grievances of the Tamils, and recommend full autonomy for them within their territories in Sri Lanka.
On the next day, they would insist that Tamil militants should lay down arms, while turning a blind eye to the accumulation of sophisticated weaponry and armaments by the Singhalese regime to subdue the Tamils.
It should be understood that protracted negotiations motivated by vested interests would only severely aggravate the agony of the Tamils depleting all the avenues open to resolve the ethnic conflict with a lasting solution.
–Eelam Nation-
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